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hep-ex2025

Letter Of Intent for a future experiment at the High Intensity Muon Beam facility at PSI

Paolo Walter Cattaneo, Wataru Ootani, Francesco Renga +61

Searches for charged lepton flavor violation in the muon sector stand out among the most sensitive and clean probes for physics beyond the Standard Model. Currently, $μ^+ \to \math…

nucl-ex2024★ 1 cited

Search for the X17 particle in processes with the MEG II detector

The MEG II collaboration, K. Afanaciev, A. M. Baldini +64

The observation of a resonance structure in the opening angle of the electron-positron pairs in the Li(p,\ee) Be reaction was claimed and interpreted as the production…

hep-ex2023★ 6 cited

A search for with the first dataset of the MEG II experiment

MEG II collaboration, K. Afanaciev, A. M. Baldini +79

The MEG II experiment, based at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland, reports the result of a search for the decay from data taken in the first physics run in 20…

physics.ins-det2023★ 3 cited

Operation and performance of MEG II detector

MEG II Collaboration, K. Afanaciev, A. M. Baldini +82

The MEG II experiment, located at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Switzerland, is the successor to the MEG experiment, which completed data taking in 2013. MEG II started fully…

physics.ins-det2022★ 6 cited

Study on degradation of VUV-sensitivity of MPPC for liquid xenon scintillation detector by radiation damage in MEG II experiment

K. Ieki, T. Iwamoto, S. Kobayashi +6

In the MEG II experiment, the liquid xenon gamma-ray detector uses Multi-Pixel Photon Counters (MPPC) which are sensitive to vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) light under a high-intensity m…

hep-ex2022★ 9 cited

Testing Lepton Flavor Universality and CKM Unitarity with Rare Pion Decays in the PIONEER experiment

PIONEER Collaboration, W. Altmannshofer, H. Binney +58

The physics motivation and the conceptual design of the PIONEER experiment, a next-generation rare pion decay experiment testing lepton flavor universality and CKM unitarity, are d…

hep-ex2022★ 14 cited

PIONEER: Studies of Rare Pion Decays

PIONEER Collaboration, W. Altmannshofer, H. Binney +58

A next-generation rare pion decay experiment, PIONEER, is strongly motivated by several inconsistencies between Standard Model (SM) predictions and data pointing towards the potent…

physics.acc-ph2022★ 4 cited

The International Linear Collider: Report to Snowmass 2021

Alexander Aryshev, Ties Behnke, Mikael Berggren +508

The International Linear Collider (ILC) is on the table now as a new global energy-frontier accelerator laboratory taking data in the 2030s. The ILC addresses key questions for our…

hep-ex2021★ 24 cited

Science Case for the new High-Intensity Muon Beams HIMB at PSI

M. Aiba, A. Amato, A. Antognini +33

In April 2021, scientists active in muon physics met to discuss and work out the physics case for the new High-Intensity Muon Beams (HIMB) project at PSI that could deliver of orde…

hep-ex2021★ 34 cited

The Search for with 10 Sensitivity: the Upgrade of the MEG Experiment

The MEG II Collaboration, Alessandro M. Baldini, Vladimir Baranov +67

The MEG experiment took data at the Paul Scherrer Institute in the years 2009--2013 to test the violation of the lepton flavour conservation law, which originates from an accidenta…

hep-ex2020★ 27 cited

Search for lepton flavour violating muon decay mediated by a new light particle in the MEG experiment

A. M. Baldini, F. Berg, M. Biasotti +68

We present the first direct search for lepton flavour violating muon decay mediated by a new light particle X, . This search uses…

physics.ins-det2018★ 28 cited

Large-Area MPPC with Enhanced VUV Sensitivity for Liquid Xenon Scintillation Detector

K. Ieki, T. Iwamoto, D. Kaneko +9

A large-area Multi-Pixel Photon Counter (MPPC) sensitive to vacuum ultra violet (VUV) light has been developed for the liquid xenon (LXe) scintillation detector of the MEG II exper…

physics.ins-det2018★ 308 cited

The design of the MEG II experiment

A. M. Baldini, E. Baracchini, C. Bemporad +72

The MEG experiment, designed to search for the mu+->e+ gamma decay at a 10^-13 sensitivity level, completed data taking in 2013. In order to increase the sensitivity reach of the e…

hep-ex2015★ 19 cited

Muon polarization in the MEG experiment: predictions and measurements

A. M. Baldini, Y. Bao, E. Baracchini +67

The MEG experiment makes use of one of the world's most intense low energy muon beams, in order to search for the lepton flavour violating process …

physics.ins-det2013★ 2 cited

Laboratory Studies on the Removal of Radon-Born Lead from KamLAND's Organic Liquid Scintillator

G. Keefer, C. Grant, A. Piepke +64

The removal of radioactivity from liquid scintillator has been studied in preparation of a low background phase of KamLAND. This paper describes the methods and techniques develope…

hep-ex2013★ 25 cited

Measurement of the radiative decay of polarized muons in the MEG experiment

MEG Collaboration, A. M. Baldini, Y. Bao +68

We studied the radiative muon decay by using for the first time an almost fully polarized muon source. We identified a large sample (~13000) of these decays in…

hep-ex2013★ 1 cited

New constraint on the existence of the mu+-> e+ gamma decay

MEG Collaboration, J. Adam, X. Bai +71

The analysis of a combined data set, totaling 3.6 \times 10^14 stopped muons on target, in the search for the lepton flavour violating decay mu^+ -> e^+ gamma is presented. The dat…

physics.ins-det2013★ 109 cited

The MEG detector for decay search

J. Adam, X. Bai, A. M. Baldini +73

The MEG (Mu to Electron Gamma) experiment has been running at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Switzerland since 2008 to search for the decay \meg\ by using one of the most intens…

physics.ins-det2013★ 120 cited

MEG Upgrade Proposal

A. M. Baldini, F. Cei, C. Cerri +65

We propose the continuation of the MEG experiment to search for the charged lepton flavour violating decay (cLFV) μ\to e γ, based on an upgrade of the experiment, which aims for a…

hep-ex2011★ 249 cited

New limit on the lepton-flavour violating decay mu -> e gamma

MEG collaboration, J. Adam, X. Bai +64

We present a new result based on an analysis of the data collected by the MEG detector at the Paul Scherrer Institut in 2009 and 2010, in search of the lepton flavour violating dec…

hep-ex2009★ 92 cited

A limit for the mu -> e gamma decay from the MEG experiment

MEG collaboration, J. Adam, X. Bai +67

A search for the decay mu -> e gamma, performed at PSI and based on data from the initial three months of operation of the MEG experiment, yields an upper limit on the branching ra…

hep-ex2004★ 1.1k cited

Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation with KamLAND: Evidence of Spectral Distortion

The KamLAND Collaboration

We present results of a study of neutrino oscillation based on a 766 ton-year exposure of KamLAND to reactor anti-neutrinos. We observe 258 \nuebar\ candidate events with energies…

physics.ins-det2004★ 13 cited

An Overview of the KamLAND 1-kiloton Liquid Scintillator

F. Suekane, T. Iwamoto, H. Ogawa +2

KamLAND is a massive liquid-scintillator-based neutrino detector studying low energy neutrino oscillation. The experiment has discovered a large deficit of the reactor neutrino flu…

hep-ex2002★ 2.7k cited

First Results from KamLAND: Evidence for Reactor Anti-Neutrino Disappearance

KamLAND Collaboration

KamLAND has been used to measure the flux of 's from distant nuclear reactors. In an exposure of 162 tonyr (145.1 days) the ratio of the number of observed inverse…